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HOW DID THE COMMONLY PRESCRIBEDHIGH-CARBOHYDRATE DIET COME ABOUT?Articles - Dr. Bernstein Shares His Insights This week Dr. Richard K. Bernstein explains how the commonly prescribed High-Carbohydrate Diet for people with diabetes came about. “How High-Carb Diets Got Started”Diabetes Solution Revised and Updated 2007 A P P E N D I X A
If, like me, you’ve had diabetes for a while, you’ve probably been told to cut way down on your dietary intake of fat, protein, and salt, and to eat lots of complex carbohydrate. You may even still read this advice in publications circulated to diabetic patients. Why is such advice being promulgated, when the major cause of such diabetic complications as heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, and blindness is high blood sugar? When I first developed diabetes, in 1946, little was known about why this disease, even when treated, caused early death and such distressing complications. Prior to the availability of insulin, about twenty-five years earlier, people with type 1 diabetes usually died within a few months of diagnosis. Their lives could be prolonged somewhat with a diet that was very low in carbohydrate and usually high in fat. Most sufferers from the milder type 2 diabetes survived on this type of diet, without supplemental medication. When I became diabetic, oral hypoglycemic agents were not available,
and many people were still following very low carbohydrate,
high-fat diets. It was at about this time that diets very high in
saturated fats, with resultant high serum cholesterol levels, were experimentally
shown to correlate with blood vessel and heart disease in animals.
It was promptly assumed by many physicians that the then-known
complications of diabetes, most of which related to abnormalities of Seemingly unaware of the importance of blood sugar control, the ADA raised the recommended carbohydrate content from 40 to 50 percent of calories, and then more recently to 60 percent. The ADA’s most recent guidelines have backed off by vaguely stating that some diabetics may do better with less carbohydrate. ======================================== All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Author’s Note For information on how you can purchase Diabetes Solution, go to www.Diabetes911.net Special for $19.95. Regular $29.95 A savings of 10 dollars Also available a 5CD-6hour education series by Dr. Richard K. Bernstein:
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HOW DID THE COMMONLY PRESCRIBEDHIGH-CARBOHYDRATE DIET COME ABOUT? 
We would like to thank the publisher Little Brown and Company and Dr. Richard K. Bernstein, for allowing us to provide excerpts from Diabetes Solution 2007 Edition
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